LUTHER BURBANK 



whatever of development of its stock or root or 

 flower or fruit and having the remotest prospect 

 of thriving under the climatic conditions of Santa 

 Rosa and Sebastopol that has not been tested by 

 specimens brought from one corner or another 

 of the world from both hemispheres and from 

 every continent and set to work in Mr. Bur- 

 bank's training school. To give the names of the 

 different species and varieties that have here been 

 modified and improved through selective breed- 

 ing quite overlooking the other legions that have 

 proved recalcitrant would require many pages. 

 So I must be content with the citation of only a 

 few of the more conspicuous examples. 



NEW FBUITS FOB OKCHABD AND GAKDEN 



Consider, for example, the orchard fruits. Mr. 

 Burbank has produced almost numberless new 

 varieties of apples, pears, peaches, apricots, 

 plums, prunes, cherries, and quinces. He has in- 

 troduced more than sixty new varieties of plums 

 and prunes, combining the strains of ancestors 

 from Europe and Japan with those of our native 

 species, and producing an extraordinary company 

 of fruits of the most varied qualities. 



Here, for example, are prunes that are not only 

 of gigantic size and borne in profusion, but which 

 have a quality of ripening in midsummer and 

 of developing a greatly increased sugar content. 

 Here are plums that add to their other qualities 

 the capacity to withstand shipment across the con- 



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